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Old 09-21-2009, 03:14 PM   #84
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
I learned a strange thing—that in a jumble of unintelligible talk, the word “nigger” leaps out with electric clarity. You always hear it and always it stings. And always it casts the person using it into a category of brute ignorance.
— John H. Griffin. Black Like Me.

And here's Muhammad Ali, explaining why he chose jail rather than military service during the Vietnam war:

No Viet Cong ever called me “nigger.”
— Muhammad Ali. Quoted in Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen.
Thanks for these, WT!

I find now and then discussions around this subject tend to become dominated by over-intellectualized lack of insight... often painting the X hundred million black people (coming from a bewildering range of ethnocultural backgrounds) with a single very broad brush.

Discussions like that, I always felt, would be best concluded with a statement like, "White people like to eat cheese."

- Ahi
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